Improvement in mechanisms for heading barrels



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

JAMES GRIFFING, OF IPSWICH, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND BENJAMIN H. SMITH, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN MECHANISMS FOR HEADING BARRELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,595, dated March 11, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMEs GRIFFING, of' Ipswich, of the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Mechanism for Facilitating the Heading of a Barrel; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawing, of which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 a vertical section of it as applied to a barrel.

In such drawing, A denotes a lever, provided with a bearer or plate, B, fixed to its lower side, and when in use to rest on the top of the barrel-head a, in manner as shown. A hooked arm, 0, extends down from and is pivoted to theglever near its front end, the lever being furcated to receive the arm, and such arm being furnished with a series of holes, b b b, in its upper part to receive the connection-pin c. This pin goes through the lever and one of such holes, they (the said holes) being to enable the arm, whose hook f is at its lower part, to be properly adjusted to a barrel. A

I hanger or rod, D, is pivoted to the lever near its middle, a chisel or spur, E, being extended from the hanger, in manner as shown. There is also to the lower end of the hanger a stirrup, F.

The hooked arm may be made in two parts ---one to slide on the other-and they may be provided with a clamp-screw or devices for fastening them together, the same being so as to admit of the arm being lengthened or shortened to adapt the mechanism to barrels of different lengths. Furthermore, the hanger may also be so made for such purpose.

It frequently happens, after a barrel may have been packed with fish or other mat ter, that the fish or material will project upward beyond the open upper end of the barrel, and in order to get the head into place much force has to be applied to it to crowd it down and hold it, while the hoops may be in the act of being set or driven down. I

My mechanism, as above specified, is for this purpose, its application to the barrel being in manner as represented. By pressing the lever downward until the barrel-head may have been forced down to the crease of the staves, the cooper next either puts one foot through the stirrup, and holds thereby the parts in position, or he efiects such by drivin g the spur into the side of the barrel.

I claim- The lever A, the bearer B, the hooked arm 0, the hanger D, and the spur E or the stirrup F, or both, all combined and arranged together substantially as and for use as specified.

Witnesses: JAMES GRIFFING.

R. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW. 

